September 2007

Group Messaging Now you can send a message to groups of your family and friends on Geni. You can add your own custom groups to these predefined groups we have created for you: My Immediate Family – Your current spouse or partner and your parents, siblings, and children My Family – Your third cousins and closer and their current partners and your current partner’s second cousins and closer and their current partners My Friends –… Read the full story

With our new ‘Build your tree from your address book’ feature, you can quickly build your family tree and invite your relatives to join Geni in three easy steps: Import your address book and we will help you find the family members you want to add to your tree. Once you have selected your family members, you or anyone in your tree can then drag these nodes to add them to your family tree. These… Read the full story

In addition to group messaging and our new build your tree features, we have also released the following additional enhancements: Photo Enhancements The Simple Photo Uploader now uploads full resolution photos, complete with JPEG EXIF data intact Click on a photo to view it in full resolution You can still use the Advanced Photo Uploader to quickly upload multiple photos Profile Updates Family Friends is now a tab behind your Immediate Family Your email address… Read the full story

We are doing some behind the scenes work on the site today, so later this afternoon there may be short periods of downtime, although we don’t expect any. We should be done with all of the work by the late afternoon.

There has been some discussion in our forums on including GPS information on photo uploads. I think this is a great concept and would be a great feature once more cameras have GPS capability – but I am curious how many of you actually have GPS metadata for your photos right now. Answer the poll question below and let us know! <a href ="http://www.polldaddy.com" >Free Polls</a> – <a href ="http://www.polldaddy.com/poll.asp?p=103808" >Take Our Poll</a>

We are always looking for ways to help our users communicate with us and with each other. As part of this effort we have joined together with Netvibes to create a Geni Universe. Netvibes is free service which allows you to create a ‘personal start page’ on the internet. By adding the Geni Universe to your Netvibes page, you can track our Forum, Wiki, Blog, Press, Del.icio.us, and YouTube community pages all from one page…. Read the full story

We have created a third Video FAQ. This one covers the features of our Advanced Photo Uploader. You can view all of our Video FAQs here. Discuss this story